THE TRUSTING HEART Charles Mackay FRANK MORI 1856 ILN

ITEM 1.) The Trusting Heart; Set to the Tune of the Air "Care, Thou Canker of our Joys";

Black Ink Cover, 10" x 15";

The Poetry of Charles Mackay (Editor of ILN);

The Symphonies and Accompaniments Arranged by Frank Mori;

Page 227 is illustrated with a central scene of a young man being consoled by a woman; to each side is a scene of the sear, in the first it is stormy, in the second people are walking the flats; Artist was W. G.(?) Mason;

Published as Page 227 of The Illustrated London News, August 30, 1856; Under the Heading "English Songs and Melodies";

Andantino;

First Published 1856 or earlier;

1 page of music; the music appears to be complete on this page;

The reverse page, Page 228, is pasted face down onto a sheet of binder cover cardboard; it has illustrations and text, but details are not known; (I peeked along the edges);

Condition good; page had been pasted to a piece of cardboard; page has been trimmed slightly, no loss to the music or illustration; some spotting and edge tears; covers shows some storage wear; in condition suitable for framing;

HISTORICAL NOTE: "As in the early history of most newspapers, there was a period when the success of The Illustrated London News was by no means assured; for although 26,000 copies of the 1st number were disposed of, there was a great falling off in the sale of the 2nd & subsequent numbers. Mr. Ingram, however, was determined to make his property a success, & one that is still spoken of as a brilliant stroke of journalistic enterprise. He sent to every clergyman in the country a copy of the number containing illustrations of the installation of the Archbishop of Canterbury, & by this means secured many new subscribers. The 1st volume of the paper ended with the close of 1842, & with the new year several improvements were introduced. Henry Cockton, whose "Valentine Vox" was the success of 1840, contributed a story called "A Romance of Real Life," & stories by Thomas Miller ("The Basket Maker") & others followed. It is claimed by Mr. Mason Jackson that this "was the 1st attempt to infuse a new interest into newspaper literature by the introduction of fiction." The circulation by the end of the 1st year is said to have reached the high figure of 66,000 copies weekly; & the 1st year of the papers existence was celebrated by the publication of a double-number mainly illustrated by Gilbert, Harvey, & Kenny Meadows. When The Illustrated London News was started, there were very few draughtsmen on wood whose services were available for such a publication. Most of these were employed in book illustrations, & their style of drawing was not suited for rapid reproduction in a newspaper. Foremost among "the black-and-white men" of the day were William Harvey, Kenny Meadows, W. B. Scott, William Dix, G. F. Sargent, W. H. Prior (the last two being landscape & architectural artists exclusively), John Gilbert, George & Robert Cruikshank, John Leech, Alfred Forrester ("Crowquill"), & S. Williams. Some of these men as we have seen, early devoted their talents to the service of the new paper, & it gradually attracted other artists of repute; notably George Thomas (elder brother of Mr. W. L. Thomas, the manager of The Graphic), Birket Foster, E. Duncan, Dodson, J. L. Williams, son of S. Williams, a clever architectural draughtsman & engraver who executed such subjects as Barry's new Palace of Westminster, T. Beech, who used to copy old & modern pictures, L. Huard, a Belgian figure draughtsman, Harrison Weir, & many more. Among the early literary contributors were Mark Lemon, Stirling Coyne, & Henry, Horace, & Augustus Mayhew. Howard Staunton was the 1st editor of that chess column which has always been a "feature" of The Illustrated London News. In 1847 & 1848 Mr. W. J. Linton was the chief engraver, & the work he contributed to the paper in those years has not been surpassed at any later period in its history. In 1848, Dr. Charles Mackay, the veteran poet & journalist, succeeded to the literary & political editorship, & in 1852 he took the entire management & control of the paper. Under him worked for many years the late John Timbs, author of "The Curiosities of London," & many another excellent piece of paste & scissors work....";

HISTORICAL NOTE: "Charles Mackay (27 March 1814 – 24 December 1889) was a Scottish poet, journalist, & song writer. He was born in Perth, Scotland. His mother died shortly after his birth & his father was by turns a naval officer & a foot soldier. He was educated at the Caledonian Asylum, London, & at Brussels, but spent much of his early life in France. Coming to London in 1834, he engaged in journalism, working for the Morning Chronicle from 1835–1844 & then became Editor of The Glasgow Argus. He moved to the Illustrated London News in 1848 becoming Editor in 1852. He published Songs & Poems (1834), wrote a History of London, Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds (1841), & a romance, Longbeard. He is also remembered for his Dictionary of Lowland Scotch. During his lifetime, his fame chiefly rested upon his songs, some of which, including Cheer, Boys, Cheer, were in 1846 set to music by Henry Russell, & had an astonishing popularity. Mackay 1st visited & published his observations about America as Life & Liberty in America: or Sketches of a Tour of the United States & Canada in 1857-58 (1859). He returned to act as Times correspondent during the American Civil War, & in that capacity discovered & disclosed the Fenian conspiracy. He had the degree of LL.D. from the University of Glasgow in 1846. He was a member of the Percy Society. He died in London. His daughter became known as the novelist Marie Corelli.";

HISTORICAL NOTE: "The Illustrated London News was the world's 1st illustrated weekly newspaper. Founded in 1842, it was published weekly until 1971. Printer & newsagent Herbert Ingram moved from Nottingham to London in early 1842. Inspired by how the Weekly Chronicle always sold more copies when it featured illustrations, he had the idea of publishing a weekly newspaper which would contain pictures in every edition. He originally considered having it concentrate on crime, as per the later Illustrated Police News, but his collaborator, engraver Henry Vizetelly, instead convinced him that a newspaper which covered more general news would be more successful. In association with Mark Lemon, the editor of Punch, as his chief adviser, Ingram rented an office, located artists & reporters, & employed as his editor the writer Frederick William Naylor Bayley (1808-1853), former editor of the National Omnibus. The 1st edition of The Illustrated London News appeared on 14 May 1842. It contained 16 pages & 32 wood engravings, & covered the current war in Afghanistan, a train crash in France, a steam-boat accident on the Chesapeake, a survey of the candidates for the US presidential election, in addition to length crime reports, stage & book reviews, & three pages of advertisements. Costing sixpence, the 1st edition sold 26,000 copies. Despite this initial success, there was a falling off in the 2nd & subsequent numbers. However, Herbert Ingram was determined to make his paper a success, & sent every clergyman in the country a copy of the edition which contained illustrations of the installation of the Archbishop of Canterbury, & by this means secured a great many new subscribers. Its circulation soon rose to 40,000 & by the end of its first year reached 60,000. In 1851, after the newspaper published Joseph Paxton's designs for the Crystal Palace before even Prince Albert had seen them, the circulation achieved 130,000. In 1852, when it produced a special edition covering the funeral of the Duke of Wellington, sales rose to 150,000, while in 1855, mainly due to the paper reproducing some of Roger Fenton's pioneering photographs of the Crimean War (& also due to the abolition of the Stamp Act which taxed newspapers), it sold 200,000 copies per week. By 1863 The Illustrated London News was selling over 300,000 copies every week, enormous figures in comparison to other British newspapers of the time. Competitors appeared but did not last long; Andrew Spottiswoode's Pictorial Times lost £20,000 before it was sold to Ingram, while Henry Vizetelly, who had left Ingram to found the rival Pictorial Times, eventually sold it to Ingram, who closed it down. Herbert Ingram died on 8 September 1860 in a paddle-steamer accident on Lake Michigan, & he was succeeded as proprietor by his youngest son, William, who in turn was succeeded by his son, Bruce Ingram in 1900. The Illustrated London News was published weekly until 1971, when it became a monthly. From 1989, it was bimonthly, & then quarterly. The magazine is no longer published, but the Illustrated London News Group still exists. It produces in-house magazines & websites, & offers consultancy services, in addition to owning the archive of the Illustrated London News. The 1st generation of draughtsmen & engravers included Sir John Gilbert, Birket Foster, & George Cruikshank among the former, & W. J. Linton, Ebenezer Landells & George Thomas among the latter. Regular literary contributors included Douglas Jerrold, Richard Garnett & Shirley Brooks. Illustrators & artists included Mabel Lucie Attwell, E. H. Shepherd, Kate Greenaway, W. Heath Robinson & his brother Charles Robinson, George E. Studdy, David Wright, Melton Prior, Frederic Villiers, Edmund Blampied, Frank Reynolds, Lawson Wood, H. M. Bateman, Bruce Bairnsfather, C. E. Turner, R. Caton Woodville, A. Forestier, Fortunino Matania & Louis Wain. Writers & journalists included Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, George Augustus Sala, J. M. Barrie, Wilkie Collins, Joseph Conrad, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, G. K. Chesterton, Agatha Christie, Arthur Bryant & Tim Beaumont (who wrote on food). Editors: 1842: Frederick William Naylor Bayley, 1848: John Timbs, 1852: Charles Mackay, 1859: John Lash, 1891: Clement Shorter, 1900: Bruce Ingram, 1963: Hugh Ingram, 1965: Timothy Green, 1966: John Kisch, 1970: James Bishop, 1995: Mark Palmer.";

The primary item was part of the collection of Henry J. Hauschild Jr., who billed himself as a “Physiognomist – Bibliopolist – Cognoscente di Eccellentissimo”, and was the very proud owner of the world famous "Nose Gallery” at “The Oldest House” in Victoria, Texas. Henry Senior founded the Hauschild Music Company business which was later owned by his 8 children and eventually the four brothers before being closed in 1980;

"Musicologist and historian, Delmer Rogers, longtime member of the staff of the Department of Music at the University of Texas, is of the opinion that the Hauschild Music Company, founded in Victoria, Texas in 1891, was the second oldest institution to commercially publish sheet music in Texas. (Thos. Goggan of Houston being the first.) Also, his extensive research indicates that Hauschild's was the first in Texas to issues music with Spanish titles. About thirty were published, many by talented writers, and sold in large numbers. In addition, probing seems to prove that Hauschilds was the first to publish the efforts of several of the music-loving Germans of the area. Most interesting, too, is that the spritely composition, the Cowboy Rag offered in 1904 possibly was the purcursor of this genre of popular music." taken from "The Cognoscenti Collections";

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